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California Burns, Winds Kick up And Power Outages Follow
Sep 8 2020 // New wildfires ravaged California during a scorching Labor Day weekend that saw a dramatic airlift of more than 200 people trapped by flames and ended with the state’s largest utility turning off power to 172,000...
CDI: 3 Charged with Auto Insurance Fraud, Forgery in California
Sep 7 2020 // Three Californians have been charged with multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and forgery for allegedly filing fraudulent insurance claims on a former employee’s policy and intercepting insurance checks to...
California Workers’ Comp Bureau Submits Premium Rate Filing
Sep 7 2020 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has submitted its Jan. 1, 2021, pure premium rate filing to the California Department of Insurance, proposing advisory pure premium rates that are on...
California Launches Remote Insurance Licensing Exams
Sep 7 2020 // The California Department of Insurance has launched remote testing for license examinations, designed to provide more flexibility and opportunities to thousands of insurance license candidates in light of existing COVID-19...
California State Fund Declares 10% 2020 Mid-Year Dividend
Sep 7 2020 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will distribute a roughly $75 million dividend to its qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan. 1 and Aug. 26. The dividend equals roughly 10%...
Charges May be Brought in California Boat Fire That Killed 34
Sep 4 2020 // Nine days after the scuba boat Conception went down in flames with 34 people trapped below deck in one of the deadliest disasters in California maritime history, a federal grand jury began looking into whether a crime had...
Insurers, Covid-Hit Businesses May Be at Odds Over Interruption Claims for Disasters
Sep 4 2020 // As insurers brace for an expensive natural-disaster season because of storms and wildfires ravaging parts of the United States, the novel coronavirus is giving them an odd financial break. Many companies that were damaged...
California Wants Insurers to Reimburse Costs for Those Displaced by Wildfires
Sep 3 2020 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara issued a notice to all California property/casualty insurance companies urging them to cover additional living expenses for policyholders who remain under mandatory evacuation...
California Wildfire Bills Expire as Legislature Recesses, But One Bill Expected to Return
Sep 2 2020 // Several major wildfire bills were left on the table when the California Legislature ended its session earlier this week, but one bill is expected to make a comeback in some form. Assembly Bill 2167, authored by Assemblyman...
Topa in California Names Tillinghast Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Sep 2 2020 // Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group has named Tracy Tillinghast vice president and chief information officer. Tillinghast will be responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy and leading the IT...
Report: Workers’ Comp Written Premium in California for First Quarter to be Down 5%
Sep 2 2020 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released its quarterly experience report, an update on California statewide insurer experience valued as of March 31, 2020. Highlights of the report...
Bayer Appeals $20.5 Million Roundup Damages Award to California Supreme Court
Sep 2 2020 // Bayer AG has asked California’s Supreme Court to review a decision awarding $20.5 million to a groundskeeper who claimed the company’s Roundup weedkiller caused his cancer, arguing the ruling was at odds with...
Woodruff Sawyer Names O’Regan Vice President in California
Sep 2 2020 // Woodruff Sawyer has named Brian O’Regan vice president in the firm’s private equity and transactional risk group. O’Regan will work out of the San Francisco, Calif. office. He has a decade of experience...
Firefighter Killed at Scene of California Wildfire
Sep 1 2020 // A firefighter was killed and another injured Monday battling a wildfire in the Northern California forest, authorities said. The firefighter was killed in Mendocino National Forest north of San Francisco, where a wildfire...
Study: Fewer Vehicle Collisions with Wildlife in California as Traffic Dips During Pandemic
Sep 1 2020 // A study shows California’s stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus seems to have reduced wildlife collisions, as decreased traffic resulted in fewer collisions with mountain lions, deer and other large...
California Launches Remote Insurance Licensing Exams
Sep 1 2020 // The California Department of Insurance has launched remote testing for license examinations, designed to provide more flexibility and opportunities to thousands of insurance license candidates in light of existing COVID-19...
California State Fund Declares 10% 2020 Mid-Year Dividend
Aug 31 2020 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund will distribute a roughly $75 million dividend to its qualifying policyholders with policies that took effect between Jan. 1 and Aug. 26. The dividend equals roughly 10%...
Insurer Travelers Overcomes California Restaurant’s COVID-19 Business Loss Claim
Aug 31 2020 // A federal court in California has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Los Angeles restaurant seeking business interruption losses from Travelers Indemnity due to coronavirus-related restrictions on its business. Judge Stephen...
California Chicken Plant Shutting Down Due to Virus Outbreak
Aug 31 2020 // A chicken processing plant in central California has been ordered to shut down after it became the site of one of the largest and most severe COVID-19 outbreaks in the state, health officials said. The order to close the...
California Issues Cease and Desist for Illegal Extended Warranties
Aug 28 2020 // The California Department of Insurance issued a cease and desist order on Elite Integrity LLC, doing business as Auto Protection Plus, in Garden Grove, and its controlling manager, Kamisha Daniel, of Irvine, for allegedly...
